Jieu Lee , PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow | Emory Global Diabetes Research Center

Biography

Jieun Lee earned her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is currently a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in quantitative skills of machine learning and spatial econometrics. She studies how chronic disease profiles, such as diabetes, differ across social determinants of health (SDOH) subgroups. Moreover, she studies how endogenous spillover effects formed by geographic proximity as well as SDOH distance affect one’s health outcomes. She also develops predictive models for chronic diseases, addressing the interrelation between one’s physiology risk and SDOH.